Crossword clues for influence
influence
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
influence
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a disruptive influence (=a person who causes disruption)
▪ Mike’s parents thought I was a disruptive influence .
a position of influence
▪ The media have an unrivalled position of influence.
a positive influence
▪ His mother was a strong positive influence.
a strong influence
▪ The experience of living there had a strong influence on me.
affect/influence the outcome
▪ Did coverage in the media affect the outcome of the trial?
cultural factors/influences
▪ Research suggests that cultural factors influence scores in intelligence tests.
decisive factor/effect/influence etc
▪ Women can play a decisive role in the debate over cloning.
exert influence
▪ These large companies exert considerable influence over the government.
factors influence sth
▪ Various factors influenced the government’s decision.
formative influence/effect etc
▪ International politics were a formative influence on the party.
heavily dependent/reliant/influenced
▪ Britain is heavily dependent on imports for its raw materials.
influence sb’s behaviour
▪ The genes we inherit influence our behaviour.
influence/shape the course of sth
▪ The result of this battle influenced the whole course of the war.
powerful influence
▪ Immigrants have had a powerful influence on the local culture.
profound effect/influence/impact/consequence etc
▪ Tolstoy’s experiences of war had a profound effect on his work.
▪ The mother’s behaviour has a profound impact on the developing child.
under the influence of alcohol/drink/drugs etc
▪ He was accused of driving while under the influence of alcohol.
undue influence
▪ De Gaulle felt that America had undue influence in Europe.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
▪ Her brief encounter with the Sun had evidently had a bad influence on her.
▪ She fretted about all the bad influences, all the temptations to idleness which surrounded her sons.
▪ Even within the ultra-clean pages of Smash Hits, there are a number of bad influences featured every fortnight.
▪ People are afraid of the horror genre as a whole and parents are afraid their children might be exposed to bad influences.
▪ He was what they used to call a bad influence in the school.
▪ They were a bad influence, Paquita said: a decadent life and no ambition.
▪ But what should parents do if they believe their children's friends are having a bad influence on them?
▪ You've been a bad influence.
considerable
▪ These teachers exerted considerable influence within the school, because they held positions as heads of departments or as year heads.
▪ Hillary Clinton is married to Bill Clinton; she used to be a lawyer and wields considerable influence as first lady.
▪ Brayne had considerable influence on other millenarian and spiritual writers.
▪ Metaphors have side effects, although sometimes it is difficult to detect them until they have had a considerable influence upon us.
▪ Because of their early contact with parents they often had considerable influence in steering parents towards specialist provision.
▪ He had a considerable influence upon the thinking of Piaget.
▪ The ruler of the nights has always held considerable influence in astrology.
▪ The selection of the method of purification of the wastes therefore has considerable influence on the plant costs.
cultural
▪ More subtle forms of cultural influence also abound.
▪ Today, the spread of cultural influence has attained vertiginous speed.
▪ Each frame of reference is constructed largely through cultural influences.
▪ Will the ever faster spread of cultural influence remove the frontiers between civilizations that were once so firm in world history?
▪ They will be discussed in terms of material resources and economic developments, as well as urban networks, financial relationships and cultural influences.
▪ Where education reduces fertility, which is nearly everywhere, the trigger point varies according to cultural influences.
▪ The great cultural influence came from the monastic settlements, where the Cistercian Order was most active.
▪ Yet this political hostility did not prevent its welcoming, on occasion, cultural influence from the West.
decisive
▪ The method used can have a decisive influence on the ranking of the proposals.
▪ In numerous races, evangelical voters were of decisive influence in deciding the outcome.
▪ Consequently, developments in the international financial structure have had a decisive influence on how wealth-creating activities are divided among nations.
▪ Moreover, it was an event that had a decisive influence on the way macro-policy evolved.
▪ Control is widely defined as the ability to exercise a decisive influence over a company by any means.
▪ Thus, they have a decisive influence over the results in most of the elections.
direct
▪ It had, however, been tough being Bernard's son, until he removed himself from his direct sphere of influence.
▪ To understand it, it is necessary to make a distinction be-tween the direct and indirect influence religion has on reproductive behavior.
▪ To begin with, it is an attempt to influence a great deal that is beyond management's direct sphere of influence.
▪ The evidence suggests, then, that the direct influence of religious doctrine on individual reproductive decisions is weak.
▪ Probably the most effective direct influence by employment interests on the college curriculum comes from their membership of course committees.
▪ Notice that few of these regulations have any direct influence upon the direction of insurance companies' investment funds.
▪ It is difficult to detect any direct influence of Darwin's writings on the development of the main stream of plant ecology.
▪ In the provincial press, and especially the local weeklies, it is more difficult to believe that direct influence was rare.
formative
▪ His formative influence as a boy had been John Cassell's Popular Educator, first published in 1852.
great
▪ The first Prime Ministers were messenger boys, but with potentially great influence.
▪ This showed that health visitors had the greatest influence on social workers.
▪ I can have a great deal of influence just by my voice.
▪ Subordinates with the greatest knowledge of a problem will have greater influence over the decision.
▪ Most witches were women, often aged derelicts who wielded great influence over the people.
▪ The greater the influence, the more the security.
▪ For all his shyness, Rawls has exercised a great influence on those who come into personal contact with him.
important
▪ But this is unjust to what has been a most important influence on modern design.
▪ But the second most important influence was the school itself.
▪ He planned Letchworth, and had an important influence on the proposals of the Tudor-Walters Report.
▪ In larger cities, ties to the land are less important and homogenizing influences have a greater impact.
▪ Maternal nutrition may be an important influence on programming.
▪ Some feminist psychologists too are realizing that age may have important influences on gender.
▪ Psychoanalytic theory has probably been the single most important theoretical influence on the discipline of Art History over the past decade.
▪ Climate has an important influence on these outcomes.
major
▪ In other words, are formal or informal mechanisms of control the major influence?
▪ She had been a major influence in my life, and helped me through the rough patches.
▪ There appear to have been two major influences behind the modification of the classic pacta tertiis rule.
▪ Henley will continue to have a major influence on management development worldwide in the 1990s.
▪ For example, post-puberty is the time when peer group friendships may take over from parents as the major influence.
▪ This brings us to the final, major stylistic influence to be found within Traditional Realism.
▪ Out of the multiplicity of factors influencing the development of the personality of the black child the following are the major influences.
outside
▪ The Dalmatians from Ragusa represented the most important of the outside influences which penetrated into the heart of the Balkans.
▪ The outside influences have no bearing on what you can do for your basketball team....
▪ Her geographical position, like Athens', was accessible to outside influences and radical thinking.
▪ Investigators have concluded that outside influence drove numerous personnel decisions and resulted in slanted broadcasts.
▪ The development of an idea is a tortuous process involving many outside influences.
▪ But society should not expect those outside influences to do the job a parent should, nor should a parent expect that.
▪ The affable manager said no, it was simply a style of cooking open to outside influences, like California cuisine.
▪ As a result of these outside influences, employees have even less trust in their own plant management. 4.
political
▪ With this decline in spiritual and political influence has come an economic slide.
▪ But he will begin his second term as the third-highest constitutional officer in the government with his political influence significantly diminished.
▪ In their place the crown employed lesser nobles and lawyers who had no awkward pretensions to political influence.
▪ With about twenty-five thousand people owing their government jobs to political activity or influence, nothing is typical or unusual.
▪ The emphasis on rules is further supported by consideration of the political influences on policy-setters.
▪ The drive should further boost the political influence of small companies, which is already growing rapidly, lobbyists figure.
▪ Inequalities in material life-chances are fundamental; status differences and differences in political influence tend to be dependent on material life chances.
▪ Of more concern, Nye and other specialists feel, is the growing political influence of the military in internal affairs.
positive
▪ The bureau is hard pressed for staff but may nevertheless decide that such work has wider positive influence.
▪ Just thinking it over, you will see how deep and positive an influence this can be.
powerful
▪ The financial markets are themselves an immensely powerful influence which we can never afford to ignore.
▪ In naturally occurring decision environments, interactions between situational demands and self-referent factors can exert a powerful influence on the decision-making process.
▪ At every stage in the communication process we can detect the powerful influence of culture.
▪ In the coming millennium, Dahl predicted, new telecommunications technology will exert a powerful influence for change on the democratic process.
▪ The Special Unit in Barlinnie Prison has showed dramatically how powerful the influence of art can be.
▪ Room temperature exerted a powerful influence on the going rate of any timekeeper.
▪ This may be a powerful influence in any decision about age of retirement.
▪ Peer pressure among journalists also can have a powerful influence on improving performance.
profound
▪ Although not formally a member Gore had a profound influence on Leese.
▪ Could such extraordinary images not exert a profound influence on art in this century?
▪ The designer's close encounter of severe illness had a profound influence on his scheme.
▪ Very few fully appreciated their profound influence on their junior colleagues.
▪ The historical legacy of this hegemony continues to have a profound influence on the contemporary political landscape.
▪ He had a profound influence at a personal level on his contemporaries.
▪ These two beliefs, not overtly of political relevance, are to exert a profound influence on political thought.
significant
▪ Only in the rapidly declining Liberal party did the radicals have any significant influence on policy.
▪ Rate of partner change, or contact rate, is the third significant factor that influences risk.
▪ Even with stringent controls for partisanship and ideology, multiple regression analyses show that the press had a significant influence on preferences.
▪ In addition, government policies on taxation and welfare benefits will have a significant influence.
▪ To this principle many exceptions are recognized and it can not be said to have had a significant influence on constitutional practice.
▪ Household size, marital status, and ethnicity all failed to show a significant influence in the participation model.
▪ The hovering presence of Ford and General Motors remained the most significant influence.
▪ In our series the histological differentiation grade of the tumour had no significant influence on survival.
strong
▪ Obviously, granters of credit have strong influence.
▪ The strongest influence religion has on slowing the transition to low fertility is among poor and uneducated women in rural areas.
▪ The press had a particularly strong influence on the attitudes of Labour identifiers, especially towards the end of the campaign.
▪ Toulouse-Lautrec was of the generation of artists who followed the Impressionists, and Degas had a particularly strong influence on his work.
▪ Nevertheless the grandmother was a strong influence.
undue
▪ The first reason is that the apparent consent or refusal was given as a result of undue influence.
▪ Anything too wild might qualify as an undue influence on the rest of us.
▪ Even if the pressure had constituted undue influence, it would not, in my judgment, have affected the bank.
▪ Besides, Chennault had worked for Chiang and hence was under the undue influence of the generalissimo.
▪ Notice, first, the doctrine of undue influence.
▪ Possibilities of blackmail or undue influence.
▪ The vitiating feature was undue influence or misrepresentation on the part of the debtor unknown to the creditor.
■ VERB
exercise
▪ That has not prevented them exercising a great influence on our cultural development.
▪ But the Communist ministers, who were carefully kept from exercising real influence, soon quit in disgust.
▪ She distrusted the institutions through which they exercised influence from the moment that supreme power seemed within her grasp.
▪ Political maps of the time show how complex the situation really was when Rodrigo began to exercise an influence.
▪ He exercised increasing influence over the College and in 1860 was appointed delegate protector.
▪ People also obey orders given by these managers because it is the leader's position to exercise influence in the organisation.
▪ For all his shyness, Rawls has exercised a great influence on those who come into personal contact with him.
▪ It was the kingdom of the Franks which was to exercise most influence for the longest period of time.
exert
▪ In one way or another towns exerted an influence over the farming population.
▪ Several groups claim to exert their influence, but insist that it is no more than that.
▪ None the less, the past does exert its moulding influence upon us.
▪ The first is that the constant component of monetary growth, g, does now exert an influence on real output.
▪ Contemporaries in sport and coaches exert the main influences and the family's role in the sports process is redundant.
▪ Furthermore, it is difficult for the participant observer not to exert some influence on the events that are being observed.
▪ But in the twenties and the early thirties, it exerted a considerable influence over much of London and the Home Counties.
▪ But in 2000, it was financial officers and senior executives who exerted their influence.
increase
▪ He exercised increasing influence over the College and in 1860 was appointed delegate protector.
▪ Corporations involved in the escalating race to acquire media properties seek not only expanded profitability but also increasing influence.
▪ Feminists are also realizing that a rejection of biology can, paradoxically, increase the influence of biological determinism.
▪ One change which, if implemented, could increase the influence of councillors, would be some form of payment.
▪ The political skills you have to increase your power and influence within an organization. organization.
▪ The unemployed movement served to increase Communist influence, but was attacked for not doing so fast enough.
▪ No doubt Britain tries to increase its influence by placing its representatives in key posts, but all member states do that.
show
▪ A surprising amount of work to be found in the island does, however, show their influence.
▪ Park's personal papers also show other influences on the Chicago School's thinking.
▪ The statues of saints in their niches show the influence of Michelangelo.
▪ His work shows the influence of the Danubian School, but little else is known of him.
▪ The few cases where we know how a girl entered the trade show a mixture of influences.
▪ But Cray's music has always shown the influence of more forms than the urban twelve-bar.
▪ In the artnouveau style, the lettering and bronze basin showing the influence of Charles Rennie Macintosh.
▪ Studies of the human oesophagus and duodenum showed the same influence of intestinal tone upon the pressure elastic modulus during distension.
use
▪ But as anarchy increases, so we will be expected to use that influence.
▪ They also sought to use their influence with Draskovic and other opposition leaders, cautioning them against agitating for further violence.
▪ These differences in resources force the two to use different styles of influence.
▪ He was indifferent to the attention he received, calmly going about his business, never using his influence to manipulate others.
▪ Now they are intent upon capturing the Conscience to use its influence for their own ends.
▪ Unfortunately for the council, it used its influence occasionally in opposition to the liberal administration.
▪ High-ranking officials were said to be rigging privatization to their own advantage, using their influence in local administrations.
▪ He was then appointed as the master of the mint and used his influence to help the sick and homeless.
wield
▪ Culturally dominant and playing a pervasive role in the everyday life of élite and masses alike, it wielded enormous influence.
▪ Hillary Clinton is married to Bill Clinton; she used to be a lawyer and wields considerable influence as first lady.
▪ In the chair of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a lobbying group, she wields considerable influence in the Valley and beyond.
▪ Most witches were women, often aged derelicts who wielded great influence over the people.
▪ Karajan was comfortable with his stature as a power broker and not at all shy about wielding his influence.
▪ Traditionally within the scope of human imagination only gods had wielded such mighty influence on the affairs of men.
▪ Conservatism went into relative eclipse. while Labour under Clement Attlee was able to wield influence in the coalition government.
▪ In any case, the whole process will be modified by the ability of each group to wield power and influence.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bring pressure/influence to bear (on sb/sth)
▪ As consumers in a capitalist society we have great power to bring pressure to bear.
▪ In London Channel 4 journalists and Insight News, the production company, brought pressure to bear.
▪ It is no longer our job to criticize or bring pressure to bear.
▪ On his eastern border, Ine brought pressure to bear on the eastern Saxons who were sheltering exiles from his kingdom.
▪ Those groups have brought pressure to bear on government to provide resources or pursue policies to the benefit of their members.
▪ Workers have their own organisations which can bring pressure to bear on governments and make demands on the state.
sb's/sth's sphere of influence
wield power/influence/authority etc
▪ A close adviser of the dead King, he now wields power because of that King's death.
▪ But more characteristic was the visible manipulation of supernatural power by men and women who wielded authority.
▪ Conservatism went into relative eclipse. while Labour under Clement Attlee was able to wield influence in the coalition government.
▪ Curtiss draws a picture of a sensual, self-serving middle-aged woman who wields power as well as influence.
▪ In allowing authority figures to wield power over us indiscriminately, we surrender our rights to choose to take responsibility.
▪ Others were content to wield power in the party machines rather than in the public eye.
▪ They weren't out to impress or wield power.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The authorities were worried about the influence of Western films and TV programmes.
▪ The banks had too much influence over government policy.
▪ The book is about the influence of feminist ideas on American society.
▪ The Catholic Church has always had a lot of influence in Polish politics.
▪ Using her influence with her husband, Evita Peron won women the right to vote.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Inpart they were motivated by concern to shore up the influence of their class over provincial affairs.
▪ It is particularly more comfortable when I know that the donors will not ask for my votes and my influence.
▪ It would be quite wrong to suggest that the only influence on mate choice is relative familiarity.
▪ Lay influence was under threat and the laity's rights as patrons were being questioned.
▪ To fix: Using clout or influence to produce a favorable result, usually from an entity of government.
▪ We all have positions of influence.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
deeply
▪ It is something that has deeply influenced all social life.
▪ This self-sufficiency in the face of tragedy must have deeply influenced Agnes, who was seven when her father died.
▪ Both societies are deeply influenced by their history and by their perception of that history.
▪ The political orientations of most individuals are deeply influenced by behaviors and beliefs experienced in the family environment.
▪ His writings deeply influenced many later mathematicians and scientists, most notably Galileo and Newton.
greatly
▪ A massive interview program convinced Mayo that informal working groups created a social environment that greatly influenced the productivity of the employees.
▪ Piaget s system for conceptualizing intellectual development was greatly influenced by his early training and work as a biologist.
▪ The younger musicians, influenced greatly by Miles Davis, liked their jazz, but liked it loud.
▪ The price of gas which only supplies about 30 percent of the energy does not greatly influence the results.
▪ A culture that promotes and encourages change will greatly influence the attitude to change held by staff.
▪ It was also greatly influenced by the managers' credibility and network of relationships.
▪ The true incidence of this varies and is greatly influenced by the experience and skill of the surgical team.
heavily
▪ As with other institutions in the Third World education has been heavily influenced by colonialism.
▪ These expectations will usually be heavily influenced by past profits, but they are not the only consideration.
▪ Detailed statistics are not available for the inner city itself, but overall black totals are heavily influenced by ghetto conditions.
▪ The cases should provide evidence on the conservative course of a court heavily influenced by appointments made during the Reagan years.
▪ The number of errors is heavily influenced by motivation of the staff.
▪ An individual's scope for modifying it will inevitably be heavily influenced by site and corporate culture.
profoundly
▪ A more specific example of how the culture of work profoundly influences the industrial worker is around the issue of assessment.
▪ Most of the important Physics that has been done in the laboratory during that time has been profoundly influenced by Sir Charles.
▪ Clearly, although he did not agree with Plato, he too was profoundly influenced by the cosmological view of time.
▪ Our attitudes are profoundly influenced by our own experiences both in the past and in the present.
▪ John Cage, composer and performance artist who profoundly influenced the development of avant-garde music, died 12 August, aged seventy-nine.
strongly
▪ Recent reorganisations have been strongly influenced by discussions about the appropriate size that would enable a local authority to accept particular responsibilities.
▪ Positive feedback from peers also strongly influenced the managers' development.
▪ The young were free flying, and the future status of this species in Sussex will be strongly influenced by this population.
▪ The way they reacted to the workplace was strongly influenced by their own personal situation.
▪ It was strongly influenced by the contemporary art movement known as Constructivism, which was being energetically pursued.
▪ This effect can be strongly influenced by diet.
▪ It is composed of species adapted to the urban environment and is influenced strongly by the availability of seeds.
▪ This approach was strongly influenced by the methods of natural science.
■ NOUN
ability
▪ An experimental study of the ability of subjects to influence their own dreams was conducted at David Foulkes's laboratory.
▪ Power is therefore the ability to influence, whereas influence is an active process.
action
▪ Politics occurs in the midst of many changing conditions that can influence those actions.
▪ Does it influence any political actions I might take?
▪ Depending on the political system, this might entail voting and campaign activities to influence the selection and action of political authorities.
▪ I tried never to let my foresight influence my action, but how can I tell?
▪ It should be evident from these examples that there are many aspects of the environment that might influence political beliefs and actions.
attempt
▪ It was published in October 1988 as an attempt to influence the Labour Party's programme of modernisation.
▪ Members of the group mentor students and attempt to influence policy on campus activities important to women.
▪ To begin with, it is an attempt to influence a great deal that is beyond management's direct sphere of influence.
▪ A number of our respondents believe that they can enlist the support of others in their attempts to influence the government.
▪ There is anger here about Britain's attempts to influence the present situation.
▪ The programme marked perhaps the beginning of Mrs Whitehouse's attempts to influence the content of particular programmes.
▪ Political parties need to respect the military and try to avoid attempts to influence the forces for political advantage.
▪ What differentiates them is the degree to which it is acknowledged that an attempt to influence those above is being made.
behavior
▪ In any situation in which some one is trying to influence the behavior of another individual or group, leadership occurs.
▪ Many factors besides reasoning influence behavior.
▪ What is counted shapes and influences the behavior of the organization.
▪ The results of numerous studies from around the world clearly show that both genes and the environment influence drinking behavior.
behaviour
▪ Conversely, political behaviour helps influence the contours of the Constitution.
▪ Language behaviour is influenced not only by personality but also by convention and culture.
▪ The results would suggest that the behaviour of boys influences teacher bias towards them.
▪ In other words, as hormones influence behaviour, so behaviour influences hormones.
▪ The genes worked on behaviour, presumably by influencing the embryonic development of the nervous system.
▪ The attributes of most interest to evolution-size, shape, or behaviour-are influenced by both.
▪ The former approach sees behaviour as being influenced by the structure of society.
change
▪ The variable most likely to be influenced by changes in interest rates is investment.
▪ The Tory party used cash and back channels and foreign donations to influence elections and change laws.
▪ Once more her argument rests on the potential of self-evaluation to influence change.
▪ There were more performances of his works, and his own interpretations were influencing changes in styles of performance.
▪ The final factor influencing employment are the changes in the developing world.
▪ A major factor influencing this change is the projected trend in CO2 emissions.
▪ Where such steady-state paths exist, then we can examine how they are influenced by changes in the parameters.
▪ The overall shape of policy development is broadly clear, but the rationale and factors influencing change are less well understood.
choice
▪ For whether knowingly or unknowingly, through fact or fiction, their stories can influence the traveller's choice of destination.
▪ The industrialist Philibert Vrau, influenced this choice.
▪ Recent occurrence appears to have influenced the other choices.
▪ The type of research, including its clinical component, may well influence future career choice and opportunity.
▪ Values will influence the choice of topic, as they do in all branches of science, but methods should be value-free.
▪ The pamphlets had explicitly sought to influence voters in their choice of candidate in the general election.
▪ The factors influencing their choices can be understood, and these influences lie at two levels.
course
▪ Can outside pressure play a role in influencing the course of events?
▪ Jack MacFarland privately influenced my course of study at Loyola, and death once again ripped through our small family.
▪ What power did the woman herself have to influence the course of events?
▪ In this way, the weakest contestants demonstrated that even they could influence the course of international diplomacy.
▪ The effects of other genes and environmental factors may influence the different course of the disease in this subset of patients.
decision
▪ Other factors - for example, equity - legitimately influence decisions.
▪ As the schedule stands now, the next test will not take place until November, too late to influence a decision.
▪ The young woman was also pregnant and Kendrick believes this consideration could have influenced the court's decision.
▪ Something Harrick had seen time and again in practice also influenced his decision.
▪ That such a prolific goalscorer should choose a club renowned for their attacking play demonstrates the practical considerations which influenced his decision.
▪ This was confirmed in one of the survey questions, which identified 10 factors influencing decisions on where to place contracts.
▪ However, it is not necessarily the immediate reply which influences decision so much as the well-considered facts succinctly presented.
▪ There the political system has several characteristics that particularly facilitate the mobilization of small groups of people to influence decisions.
development
▪ Albeit in an oblique fashion, Soviet Socialist Realism thus influenced the development of western high art.
▪ Positive feedback from peers also strongly influenced the managers' development.
▪ We can not allow pagan concepts to influence our character development.
▪ Vygotsky was concerned with the question of how social and cultural factors influence intellectual development.
▪ Thirdly, a crucial aim of the text is to show how the relationship between cultural and economic processes influences social development.
▪ This paper will argue the importance of indigenous ethnic identity in influencing economic development in the region.
▪ Out of the multiplicity of factors influencing the development of the personality of the black child the following are the major influences.
▪ Of the conditions in their environment, it is the depth of the water that mainly influences their development.
election
▪ The Tory party used cash and back channels and foreign donations to influence elections and change laws.
▪ How does the media influence elections?
▪ As well as generating ideas, the Reform of Heisei hopes to influence elections.
▪ No one believes that money given to the two campaigns' national committees was not intended to influence a federal election.
▪ The party elite and the local activists certainly tried their utmost to influence the outcome of elections.
▪ Meanwhile, the National Black Political Convention will be held this summer in a bid to influence the presidential election.
▪ He says Mr Kirk is just trying to influence the election and even the school headmaster wants nothing to do with it.
▪ Whatever happens this time, presidential debates have a way of dominating our campaign memories, and occasionally influencing elections.
event
▪ Can outside pressure play a role in influencing the course of events?
▪ Parents feel guilty, even if there is no way they could have influenced events.
▪ The supernatural beings of the Sinhalese could be manipulated by humans soas to influence events, but their ethical position was ambiguous.
▪ No doubt, this decision was influenced by another event of the recent past, the Geneva Convention in 1954.
▪ What power did the woman herself have to influence the course of events?
▪ Nature is powerful, but not omnipotent: history too often influences events.
▪ It is by influencing these local events that genes ultimately exert influences on the adult body.
fact
▪ But the public's confidence in technology is an emotive thing-and not generally influenced by the facts.
▪ Doubtless this view is influenced by the fact that children's reading ability is more limited at this time.
factor
▪ Growth promoters reduce stem height, but agronomic factors influence crop lodging heavily.
▪ These factors influence not only cognitive reasoning but also affective reasoning.
▪ Mr. Clarke Any intelligent parent, intelligent governor or intelligent newspaper person will bear it in mind that various factors influence results.
▪ Many factors besides reasoning influence behavior.
▪ There is also evidence in favour of the view that what we might think of as pragmatic factors influence language comprehension.
▪ These factors also influence the demand for one sort of drink in preference to another.
▪ What are the factors that will influence your decision?
▪ The factors that influence the size of the proliferative compartment are less clear, though in rats there are genetic differences.
government
▪ Their purpose is to influence government to adopt policies favourable to them.
▪ A number of our respondents believe that they can enlist the support of others in their attempts to influence the government.
▪ To elaborate, business, like other interest groups, makes representations to government in order to influence government policy.
▪ The public can join and campaign, supporting beliefs and causes with the intent of influencing popular opinion and government.
▪ It could provide data for other endeavors and possibly influence government codes regulating flood control.
▪ Aiming to keep the campaign goal-bound Nicola Hill How do long-running campaigns to influence government policy keep going?
▪ Another aspect of political competence is the strategy an individual would use in attempting to influence the government.
idea
▪ The extent to which Pythagoras and his followers may have been influenced by oriental ideas has long been a subject for argument.
▪ In fact, he influenced ideas about work so much that he has been credited with planting the first seeds of capitalism.
▪ These guidelines could be influenced by certain religious ideas towards abortion.
▪ William Wordsworth may have been influenced in his ideas of development by William Green.
▪ It may not be quite correct to classify Alcmaeon as a Pythagorean, but he was certainly influenced by Pythagorean ideas.
level
▪ The use of fiscal and monetary policies to influence the level of demand also has implications for the prices and growth objectives.
▪ It is not absorbed into the bloodstream, nor does it influence hormone levels, the company says.
▪ Advertising does not seem to influence total consumption or levels of abuse.
▪ The answer to that may be that lowering cholesterol influences the level of serotonin, a neurotransmitter which affects mood.
▪ The quality of care provided by the nurse can be influenced by the levels of stress among the work force.
▪ Most governments manipulated tax rates and government expenditure to influence the overall level of spending in the economy.
▪ In practice, governments can also use monetary policy and exchange rate policy to influence the level of aggregate demand.
life
▪ Hardly anybody in the big wide world has heard of us, let alone been influenced by our lives.
▪ How does it influence their life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness?
▪ Tell him how sorry you are for letting Satan influence your life.
▪ That is, they perceive government as influencing their lives.
▪ These were the women who influenced my life.
▪ It was an experience which heavily influenced his subsequent life.
▪ It is something that has deeply influenced all social life.
▪ Indeed, this context influences their lives and health as they themselves relate.
opinion
▪ Constraint knowledge is well developed and influences most specific opinions.
▪ The press had become a prime mover in determining government policy and influencing public opinion.
▪ In addition, there has also been press criticism that ministers have been using advance knowledge to influence market and media opinion.
▪ Within our society are groups which are called opinion formers because they influence the opinions of many other people.
▪ They have never been influenced by public opinion in the past but perhaps these are exceptional times.
▪ What is lacking is the will to move towards the alternatives, and this can be influenced by public opinion.
outcome
▪ They influence the outcome of discussions and persuade others of their point of view more than women do.
▪ Each has its own momentum that critically affects how much developing country governments can influence the outcomes.
▪ She felt she could influence the outcome of the screenplay by her concentrated thoughts as the story unfolded.
▪ These must influence the outcome of the experiment.
▪ Whether the curbs on police investigation will reduce police influence on the outcome of the criminal process is not easy to determine.
▪ Such models comprise theoretical constructs of variables which are interrelated, and significant in influencing the outcome of a purchase motivation.
▪ It never did much good and even now with all our antibiotics we can not greatly influence the final outcome.
policy
▪ To what extent does the increasing militancy of other civil servants influence policy making?
▪ It was the first time women used e-mail on such a massive scale to network and to influence the foreign policy community.
▪ To elaborate, business, like other interest groups, makes representations to government in order to influence government policy.
▪ Most young entrants say they are joining the service be-cause they want to influence foreign policy.
▪ This attitude will, therefore, also influence the policies of any successor regime.
▪ For some protesters, the object is to get the attention of the news media and office holders who can influence policy.
▪ Clearly, the life chances of many rural residents would be considerably influenced by the policy adopted.
▪ That was not the first ethnic bloc seeking to influence foreign policy, but it eclipsed predecessors.
position
▪ Diana felt that she was in no position to influence her husband's behaviour.
▪ Are parents really in a very strong position to influence their child's performance in the classroom?
power
▪ In the future, no speaker will have enough time to develop power and influence.
▪ Already we should be persuaded that the Bank has considerable power to influence monetary conditions.
▪ The consultant will need sufficient power to influence the sponsor in order to sell the effort to others in the organization.
▪ The idea of the separation of powers also seems to influence Dicey's belief that Parliamentary sovereignty favours the supremacy of law.
▪ Silly though it may have seemed at first, these all-male secret societies are bastions of extraordinary power and influence.
▪ Reward power Managers influence the behaviour of their team members by rewarding them.
▪ That would belie the complexity of using power and influence flexibly to meet the needs of each situation.
process
▪ How should expectations be passed between levels, and how strongly should they influence other processes?
▪ The scrutiny has spread to encompass questions about how Clinton relatives and others with special access may have influenced the pardon process.
▪ Fourthly, and last, there are variations in external context that influence the visionary process.
▪ They lacked the resources and administrative support that larger companies routinely employ to influence the political process.
▪ He has no means of influencing these processes.
▪ It is, today, simply one of many interest groups attempting to influence the decision-making process.
▪ However, there are several different kinds of centre-periphery relationships that significantly influence the implementation process.
▪ Yet a cursory look at these systems reveals that in practice the police still influence the process greatly.
rate
▪ Next, Barro tests the proposition that it is only the unpredictable part of money growth that influences the rate of unemployment.
▪ This is to influence the rate of exchange.
▪ In this way the Bank influences interest rates throughout the market.
▪ Differential inflation rates and current account disequilibria probably influence exchange rates over the medium-term, i.e. two-five years.
▪ Investment may be influenced by interest rates, but also depends on more volatile factors in the economy like businessmen's expectations.
▪ This is influenced by interest rates, economic and political developments or expectations.
▪ Individual banks and discount houses can alleviate liquidity shortages through these markets without the Bank having an opportunity to influence rates.
▪ Factors such as unemployment and the number of young people attending further education also influence labour force participation rates.
way
▪ We are monitoring the entire town to find out how preventative measures can influence the way people live.
▪ But a more direct way exists for the Moon to influence fertility.
▪ The work of the clinical teacher is influenced by the way in which her responsibilities are organised.
▪ These medications may influence the way a sleeping pill works.
▪ This was one factor influencing the way in which the teachings of Arnold and his successors were actually apprehended.
▪ How, for example, education, culture, psychological and physiological factors influence the way we react to an image.
▪ He knew that he was now powerless to influence the way they would vote.
▪ My legacy to my children would be not to try to influence them in any way as to what they should study.
work
▪ In fact, he influenced ideas about work so much that he has been credited with planting the first seeds of capitalism.
▪ Virtually everybody involved in administering or advising on the tax was influenced by his work.
▪ To what extent does low status influence the work of women teachers?
▪ The functionalist style of legal writing was greatly influenced by the work of Harold Laski.
▪ Futurism Effects of parallax have influenced the work of many twentieth century artists.
▪ As a practising scientist, I could not allow such subjective assessments of the human condition to influence my work.
▪ Jay Young's aims to show how science and technology have influenced the work of artists.
■ VERB
seek
▪ It has been paralleled by far-reaching changes in the ways in which politicians seek to influence their electorate.
▪ That was not the first ethnic bloc seeking to influence foreign policy, but it eclipsed predecessors.
▪ The pamphlets had explicitly sought to influence voters in their choice of candidate in the general election.
▪ But however affected, the mission has been to seek out, to influence, to change.
▪ Parliament is a talking shop where members seek to influence others by debate.
▪ The perceptions by leaders of the qualities and values of those they are seeking to influence.
▪ Governments would have to undertake solemnly not to seek to influence it.
▪ Dansey did not seek to influence its policy, so long as it kept out of his agents' way.
try
▪ What responsibility does it have to try to influence the human outlook?
▪ Perhaps the Form Manipulator was trying to influence all those around the victims to give up their faith.
▪ Instead of just trying to influence those in power, we would now become the people in power.
▪ The issues are numerous and diverse but groups form to try to influence decisions concerning these issues.
▪ My legacy to my children would be not to try to influence them in any way as to what they should study.
▪ In any situation in which some one is trying to influence the behavior of another individual or group, leadership occurs.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sb's/sth's sphere of influence
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Do TV programs influence children's behaviour?
▪ Don't let him influence you - make up your own mind.
▪ Don't let me influence your decision.
▪ How much does TV advertising really influence what people buy?
▪ I hope you weren't influenced by anything that your brother said.
▪ Judges should not be influenced by political motives.
▪ Some of the romantic painters were very much influenced by Goya's work.
▪ The jury's verdict was clearly influenced by their sympathy for the defendant.
▪ The prisoner claims he was influenced by his older friends to carry out the crime.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Nature alone can not influence an unschooled yokel.
▪ Recent occurrence appears to have influenced the other choices.
▪ Redon was particularly influenced by his botanist friend Armand Clavaud who used the microscope in studies of minute plant forms.
▪ That is, they perceive government as influencing their lives.
▪ The type of research, including its clinical component, may well influence future career choice and opportunity.
▪ The year in which an individual served also undoubtedly influenced his impressions of the land surrounding him.
▪ Their potential to influence growth, through either expansion or diversification, is investigated.
▪ This was confirmed in one of the survey questions, which identified 10 factors influencing decisions on where to place contracts.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Influence
Influence \In"flu*ence\ ([i^]n"fl[-u]*ens), n. [F. influence, fr. L. influens, -entis, p. pr. See Influent, and cf. Influenza.]
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A flowing in or upon; influx. [Obs.]
God hath his influence into the very essence of all things.
--Hooker. -
Hence, in general, the bringing about of an effect, physical or moral, by a gradual process; controlling power quietly exerted; agency, force, or tendency of any kind which affects, modifies, or sways; as, the influence which the sun exerts on animal and vegetable life; the influence of education on the mind; the influence, according to astrologers, of the stars over affairs.
Astrologers call the evil influences of the stars, evil aspects.
--Bacon.Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
--Job xxxviii. 31.She said : ``Ah, dearest lord! what evil star On you hath frown'd, and poured, his influence bad?''
--Spenser. -
Power or authority arising from elevated station, excelence of character or intellect, wealth, etc.; reputation; acknowledged ascendency; as, he is a man of influence in the community.
Such influence hath your excellency.
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(Elec.) Induction.
Syn: Control; persuasion; ascendency; sway; power; authority; supremacy; mastery; management; restraint; character; reputation; prestige.
Influence
Influence \In"flu*ence\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Influenced ([i^]n"fl[-u]*enst); p. pr. & vb. n. Influencing ([i^]n"fl[-u]*en*s[i^]ng).] To control or move by power, physical or moral; to affect by gentle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to affect; to move; to persuade; to induce.
These experiments succeed after the same manner in
vacuo as in the open air, and therefore are not
influenced by the weight or pressure of the atmosphere.
--Sir I.
Newton.
This standing revelation . . . is sufficient to
influence their faith and practice, if they attend.
--Attebury.
The principle which influenced their obedience has lost
its efficacy.
--Rogers.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
influence
late 14c., an astrological term, "streaming ethereal power from the stars acting upon character or destiny of men," from Old French influence "emanation from the stars that acts upon one's character and destiny" (13c.), also "a flow of water," from Medieval Latin influentia "a flowing in" (also used in the astrological sense), from Latin influentem (nominative influens), present participle of influere "to flow into," from in- "into, in, on, upon" (see in- (2)) + fluere "to flow" (see fluent). Meaning "exercise of personal power by human beings" is from mid-15c.; meaning "exertion of unseen influence by persons" is from 1580s (a sense already in Medieval Latin, for instance Aquinas). Under the influence "drunk" first attested 1866.
influence
1650s, from influence (n.). Related: Influenced; influencing.
Wiktionary
influence
n. The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuate things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To affect by gentle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to persuade or induce. 2 (context intransitive English) To exert, make use of one's influence. 3 (context transitive obsolete English) To cause to flow in or into; infuse; instill.
WordNet
influence
n. a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc; "used her parents' influence to get the job"
causing something without any direct or apparent effort
a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do; "her wishes had a great influence on his thinking"
the effect of one thing (or person) on another; "the influence of mechanical action"
one having power to influence another; "she was the most important influence in my life"; "he was a bad influence on the children"
influence
v. have and exert influence or effect; "The artist's work influenced the young painter"; "She worked on her friends to support the political candidate" [syn: act upon, work]
shape or influence; give direction to; "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion" [syn: determine, shape, mold, regulate]
induce into action by using one's charm; "She charmed him into giving her all his money" [syn: charm, tempt]
Wikipedia
Influence
Influence may refer to:
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Social influence, in social psychology, influence in interpersonal relationships
- Minority influence, when the minority affect the behavior or beliefs of the majority
Influence (play)
Influence is a 2005 play by David Williamson about a right-wing radio "shock jock". It was inspired by the popularity of such personalities as Stan Zemanek, John Laws and Alan Jones.
Influence (band)
Influence was a 1960s Canadian band best known for their mini rock-opera, Mad Birds of Prey.
Influence (Sister Machine Gun album)
'Influence ' is the seventh studio album by industrial rock band Sister Machine Gun.
Usage examples of "influence".
It seems strange that the Moslim peoples, although the theory of Islam never attributed an hereditary character to the Khalifate, attached so high a value to the Abbasid name, that they continued unanimously to acknowledge the Khalifate of Bagdad for centuries during which it possessed no influence.
He was supported by the powerful influence of Charles Sumner, then at the height of his popularity, and by Adin Thayer, the ablest political organizer in Massachusetts.
Constitution of Massachusetts was to proclaim, suggesting that such delight in life as Adams had found in the amiable outlook of the French had had a decided influence.
While Adams, on first arriving in Paris, had reported to Abigail how much he admired the Frenchwomen he met--for their accomplishments, education, their views on serious matters--Jefferson felt that the decadent state of government in France was owing in good part to the influence of such women.
He was not so concerned about a President staying long in office, Adams said, as he was about too frequent elections, which often brought out the worst in people and increased the chances of foreign influence.
OTHER THAN A FEW stiff social occasions, Adams had little contact with the President and no influence, but as yet it seemed no one had any influence with Washington.
It was not uncommon in Philadelphia--or in Massachusetts--to hear talk of the unrivaled influence Abigail Adams had on her husband and of her political sense overall.
So again the decision was left to the House of Representatives, where Speaker of the House Henry Clay used his influence to make John Quincy Adams president.
The neighbourhood of Adrianople and the Eastern region, where the great battle is now in progress, will not reveal merely the future of Turkey, but also what position and what influence the Balkan States are to have in the world.
Bizen and Shigaraki wares as cold and withered is a reflection of the fact that he, like his successors in the sixteenth century, was strongly influenced by the aesthetics of linked verse formulated by Shinkei and others.
If you could demonstrate your Africanism to two hundred million Africans, how great might your influence become.
As the personal quality of Agassiz was the greatest of his powers, and as my life was greatly influenced by my immediate and enduring affection for him, I am tempted to set forth some incidents which show that my swift devotion to my new-found master was not due to the accidents of the situation, or to any boyish fancy.
Now the only control the crew on the flight deck could exert over their fate was through the limited influence of airfoil surfaces on thin air.
That soon passed, but he remained a potent influence, and the Albanites became a force in the city.
Nixon exposed the Truman and Roosevelt administrations as having appointed known saboteur Alger Hiss to positions of influence within the government.